EU – Decisions, Decisions!

There has, quite rightly, been so much in the media regarding do we stay or do we go regarding the EU, that I thought I couldn’t let it go past without a comment or two.

Now, do not fear I am not about to comment on what I thought was the right way to vote – the last thing you want to hear is yet another opinion, nor is it appropriate for me to discuss it in this format.

However, what I would like to comment on, and what I found so interesting, was what went on in the media. Almost everything I read or listened to came from a FEAR campaign.

What I found to be really interesting, is that instead of being sold on the benefits, we were being sold on the FEAR, the WHAT IFs, the FORTUNE TELLING – now with my passion, research and studying of Mindset, I am forever guiding people away from making decisions based on fear, what ifs and fortune telling!  When we make decisions based on these areas, we end up REACTING rather then RESPONDING.

When we RESPOND, we make a CONSCIOUS decision from a place of calm.

When we REACT, we make an unconscious decision from a place of threat.

We lose the ability to make a CHOICE.

I’ll add just a bit of brain science here…..as I LOVE brain science 🙂

We as human beings have what’s called a Triune Brain – basically a 3 in 1 brain.  We have 3 very distinctive and different parts to our brain, you may have heard them called this before:

This part is concerned with SURVIVE, its main concern is keeping us safe.  If it perceives threat, it goes into Fight, Flight or Freeze mode. In real terms, it’s when we say things like I can’t/won’t do this, that won’t work – loves routine, hates change. We REACT when we operate from here.

Also concerned with keeping us safe, however it’s more concerned with social connection and hierarchy, i.e what our peers think of us, how things make us look.  When we operate from here, we often feel emotional distress. Think of this as our STRIVE area. We mainly REACT when we operate from here.

Here is where we are concerned with our dreams, our desires and wants, future plans etc.  This part loves change, wants us to keep progressing, moving forwards, challenging ourselves.  This is our THRIVE area. We RESPOND when we operate from here.

Much simplified I know, but I hope it illustrates the point.

So, when we are bombarded with FEAR – and we really do perceive the information we receive as fear, as a threat – we start to operate far less from our HUMAN brain, and much more from our REPTILE and MAMMAL brain.  What does that mean? Our ability to RESPOND is less and we REACT more, in other words we lose the ability to make CHOICES –  remember a choice is made when we are conscious and calm.

Hmmmm, so I am left wondering whether all the FEAR surrounding our CHOICE (?) on staying in or leaving the EU was deliberate?????

Interesting, isn’t it 🙂

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